Re: JavaScript and JScript....?

Randy Webb <HikksNotAtHome@xxxxxxx> writes:

John G Harris said the following on 5/30/2006 3:46 PM:
In article <S6idnYzV6P0k-OHZnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Randy
Webb <HikksNotAtHome@xxxxxxx> writes
<snip>
Further, ECMAScript is a theory about how things should be rather
than a reflection of how things really are.
....
It isn't true.

It isn't? Can you tell me where to find the specification for
innerHTML in the ECMA documentation?

Nowhere. Like there is no specification for the path of the Earth
around the sun or the notes of a symphony by Mozart. Neither is
relevant to the specification of ECMAScript, but all exist
as "things really are".

No specification specifies everything. What matters is how they
match how things really are *within their scope*

If you can, then my statement is false.
If you can't, then my statement is true.

Ah, the Chewbacca defense :)


.innerHTML is very very widely supported yet you won't find it in the
ECMAScript documentation.

Why would you even look there, and not in the much more likely W3C
DOM Specification?

That alone prevents ECMAScript from being a reflection of reality
and more a theory of how it should be.

That argument would prevent any specification from being a reflection
of reality.

Do you say that the ECMA standard for C# is also "a theory about how
things should be rather than a reflection of how things really are"?

I said nothing about ECMA's standard for C# or any other language
other than ECMAScript.

But the C# standard doesn't say anything about Java either!
/L
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